The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor’s own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMHigh valuations entail high risks.
More Benjamin Graham Quotes
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It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
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The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.
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While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
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Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss
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Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.
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Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?
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The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
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The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.
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Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
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When somebody asserts that a stock has an earning power of so much, I am sure that the person who hears him doesn’t know what he means, and there is a good chance that the man who uses it doesn’t know what it means.
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To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.
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Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
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The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
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Mr. Market’s job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.
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